气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Evidence, ideology, and the policy of community management in Africa

CCPortal

DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/ab35be
	Evidence, ideology, and the policy of community management in Africa
	Whaley L.; Macallister D.J.; Bonsor H.; Mwathunga E.; Banda S.; Katusiime F.; Tadesse Y.; Cleaver F.; Macdonald A.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	17489318
卷号	14 期号:8
英文摘要	This study examines the performance of the policy of community management for rural groundwater supply in Africa. Across the continent, policies that promote community management have dominated the rural water supply sector for decades. As a result, hundreds of thousands of village-level committees have been formed to manage community boreholes equipped with handpumps. With a significant proportion of these handpumps non-functional at any one time, increasing effort is targeted toward understanding the interacting social and physical determinants of this 'hidden crisis'. We conducted a survey of community management arrangements across six hundred sites in rural Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda, examining the extent to which management capacity is related to borehole functionality whilst accounting for a range of contextual variables. The capacity of water management arrangements (WMAs) was assessed according to four dimensions: finance system; affordable maintenance and repair; decision making, rules, and leadership; and external support. The survey reveals that 73.3% of WMAs have medium or high capacity. However, we found no strong relationship between the capacity of the WMA and the functionality of the borehole. Of the four management dimensions, affordable maintenance and repair was the best predictor of borehole functionality. However, the capacity of this dimension was seen to be the lowest overall, with 61.9% of sites weak or non-existent. Our results provide very limited support for the policy of community management, and we suggest that evidence alone has not accounted for its persistence over decades. After a short historical analysis, we conclude that explanation for the endurance of this model can be found in the nexus between evidence, ideology, and policy. We argue that it is this same nexus that will likely ensure the popularity of community management for some time to come, despite new ideas and evidence to the contrary. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	development; governance; groundwater; ideology; interdisciplinary; nexus; policy
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Boreholes; Groundwater; Public policy; Repair; Rural areas; Surveys; Water management; Water supply; development; governance; ideology; interdisciplinary; nexus; Decision making; borehole; community resource management; decision making; financial system; governance approach; groundwater; ideology; interdisciplinary approach; policy development; water management; water planning; water supply; Ethiopia; Malawi; Uganda
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/154415
作者单位	University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom; British Geological Survey, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, United Kingdom; Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi; Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Whaley L.,Macallister D.J.,Bonsor H.,et al. Evidence, ideology, and the policy of community management in Africa[J],2019,14(8).
APA	Whaley L..,Macallister D.J..,Bonsor H..,Mwathunga E..,Banda S..,...&Macdonald A..(2019).Evidence, ideology, and the policy of community management in Africa.Environmental Research Letters,14(8).
MLA	Whaley L.,et al."Evidence, ideology, and the policy of community management in Africa".Environmental Research Letters 14.8(2019).